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Rooney Puts the Bite on Madam Sadie

by | Jul 10, 2019 | True West Blog

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Those lawyers on the frontier could be pretty resourceful when it came to outwitting Lady Justice. A Irish lawyer named Clancy in Oro Belle was asked to defend an old reprobate named Rooney who’d come to town and gotten into a quarrel with the local madam, a lady who went by the name of Sadie. One word led to another and pretty soon they engaged in a shoving match. Rooney forgot whatever go


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